TLDR ;

GitOps uses Git as the single source of truth for infrastructure, enabling auditable and repeatable deployments

ArgoCD and Flux are the two leading GitOps tools, each suited to different team needs

Self-healing reconciliation automatically corrects configuration drift in production

European teams gain built-in audit trails that satisfy GDPR accountability requirements

Traditional CI/CD pushes changes to production through imperative scripts and manual kubectl commands. GitOps inverts this model. Instead of pushing changes, agents running inside your cluster pull desired state from Git and continuously reconcile actual state to match.

This approach provides three benefits that matter for production teams.

Benefit Description

Complete audit trail Git history records every infrastructure change, who made it, and why

Self-healing reconciliation Manual changes or drift get automatically corrected

Simple rollback Revert a Git commit to undo changes

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